(2012 May 27 21:01)Sarmata Wrote: Sometimes when I look on the eastern lands where my grandfather came I dream about great Polish Republic. Maybe one day when we Poles create our own patriotic elite, some of our eastern brother nations will reunite with us once again?

But for the fairness you should give Ostgebiete back to the Germans than.

"Whoever says that he "belongs to his time" is only saying that he agrees with the largest number of fools at that moment." - Nicolás Gómez Dávila

(not to mention Bulgars in Greece and Rumania, Russians in Estonia and vast swathes of Kazakhstan, Hutsuls and Rusyny in Rumania, Slovenes in Italy and Austria, various Russian sektanty in the Caucasus and Finland and everywhere... )

There´s tons of actual Slav input in the Balkan Slavs. Otherwise I don´t see how yous would have learnt the language so well. The Bulgars have the least, as far as I can tell, because of the way the language was slaughtered in their mouths, but we should probably think more about regions within the countries than countries themselves, when it comes to thinking where the Slavonic component is stronger...

And the Rumanians may WELL be more ancestrally Slavonic than most Bulgars, or even many Croats. That doesn´t stop them being ethnically Rumanian. I would talk of Slavonic and Celtic and Finnic etc. only in the META-ethnic sense. The terminology has been allowed to blur too much in common speech, though.

The Rumanians still use a LOT of Slavonic words from that part of their ancestors, it is true. As soon as you see one in the street, they´re always saying "DA DA" into their mobiles!

As another example, the English are probably far more ancestrally Celtic than the Irish (if we refer to actual original peoples that developed the Common Celtic language (and don´t bring up that Tartessos bullshit!)), but to call them more ethnically Celtic seems absurd.